A giant octopus, whose feeding habits have been affected by radiation from H-Bomb tests, rises from the Mindanao Deep to terrorize the California Coast.

How I Ended This Summer

2010

Russian

6.9

♡ 5

79%

67%

Action

arctic polar circle region

Alexei Popogrebsky Director

Igor Chernevich as Golos po ratsii - Sofronov

Artyom Tsukanov as Golos po ratsii - Stas

Grigoriy Dobrygin as Pavel

Sergey Puskepalis as Sergey

polar station on a desolate island in the Arctic Ocean. Sergei, a seasoned meteorologist, and Pavel, a recent college graduate, are spending months in complete isolation on the once strategic research base. Pavel receives an important radio message and is still trying to find the right moment to tell Sergei, when fear, lies and suspicions start poisoning the atmosphere...

The Incredible Shrinking Man

1957

English

7.6

♡ 20

83%

Action

based on novel or book

husband wife relationship

Jack Arnold Director

Frank J. Scannell as Barker

April Kent as Clarice

William Schallert as Doctor Arthur Bramson

Billy Curtis as Midget

A dangerous combination of radiation and insecticide causes the unfortunate Scott Carey to shrink, slowly but surely, until he is only a few inches tall. His home becomes a wilderness where he must survive everything from spiders living in the cellar to his beloved cat.

Day the World Ended

1955

English

5.4

♡ 9

41%

post-apocalyptic future

radiation

Sci-Fi

Roger Corman Director

Paul Birch as Jim Maddison

Raymond Hatton as Pete

Paul Dubov as Radek

Adele Jergens as Ruby

After a nuclear attack, an unlikely group of survivors, including a geologist, a crook and his moll, and a prospector, find temporary shelter in the remote-valley home of a survivalist and his beautiful daughter, but soon have to deal with the spread of radioactivity - and its effects on animal life, including humans.

Silkwood

1983

English

7.1

♡ 28

77%

Mike Nichols Director

Diana Scarwid as Angela Cher

Cher as Dolly Pelliker

Kurt Russell as Drew Stephens

Will Patton as Joe

A plutonium processing plant worker is purposefully contaminated, psychologically tortured, and possibly murdered to prevent her from exposing safety violations.

Chernobyl: Abyss

♡ 19

Danila Kozlovsky Director

Ren Hanami as

Ravshana Kurkova as Dina

Danila Kozlovsky as Firefighter Alexey Karpushin

Oksana Akinshina as Olga Savostina

The aftermath of a shocking explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear power station made hundreds of people sacrifice their lives to clean up the site of the catastrophe and to successfully prevent an even bigger disaster that could have turned a large part of the European continent into an uninhabitable exclusion zone. This is their story.

Doomsday Machine

1976

English

2.6

♡ 6

Lee Sholem Director

Denny Miller as Col. Don Price

Bobby Van as Danny

Mala Powers as Maj. Georgianna Bronski

Casey Kasem as Mission Control Officer

Following the discovery of a doomsday machine capable of destroying Earth, the launch of a US space mission to Venus is taken over by the military.

Frankenstein vs. Baragon

1965

Japanese

5.5

♡ 12

Ishirô Honda Director

Jun Tazaki as Military Advisor

Harold Conway as Photography Scholar

Haruya Katô as TV Director

Paul Frees as Various

During WWII, Germans obtain the immortal heart of Frankenstein's monster and transport it to Japan to prevent it being seized by the Allies. Kept in a Hiroshima laboratory, it is seeming lost when the United States destroys the city with the atomic bomb. Years later a wild boy is discovered wandering the streets of the city alone, born of the immortal heart.

Attack of the Crab Monsters

1957

English

4.9

♡ 9

71%

Roger Corman Director

Russell Johnson as Hank Chapman

Ed Nelson as Lt. Quinlan

Pamela Duncan as Martha Hunter

Maitland Stuart as Seaman Mac

A group of scientists travel to a remote island to study the effects of nuclear weapons tests, only to get stranded when their airplane mysteriously explodes. The team soon discovers that the tests have given rise to crabs mutated into intelligent, impervious, telepathic giants intent on increasing their numbers by breeding, then travelling to populated areas to feed, and which do not intend to be stopped by their discoverers.